meaning of glance2
1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.
2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
4. A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
5. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
6. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".
7. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
8. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
9. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
10. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
11. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.
12. a quick look
Related Words
glance | glance over | glanced | glancing | glancingly |
